The Second Coming of Science [Paperback]

Brian O'Leary (Author)

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• Paperback: 151 pages
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books (March 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 155643152X
• ISBN-13: 978-1556431524
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,158,529 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What's happened to real science, July 4, 2009

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This review is from: The Second Coming of Science (Paperback)

The scientific method as practiced by those who developed the true inquiry method of scientific exploration and truth seeking is no longer being followed by mainstream scientists and scientific organizations. Most scientists today adhere to a strict set of rules and limitations that restrict true scientific inquiry. They allowe themselves to be sealed in a box and will not venture beyond its bounds for fear of peer ridicule, career destruction, dogmatic belief and other truth seeking inhibitions. Read this remarkable book and see what has happened to most scientific inquiry and what needs to be done to break out of the box.

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5.0 out of 5 stars THE SEQUEL TO "EXPLORING INNER AND OUTER SPACE", June 29, 2011

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Brian Todd O'Leary (born 1940) is an American scientist, author, and former NASA astronaut, who was a member of the sixth group of astronauts selected by NASA in August 1967. A remote viewing experience in 1979 and a near-death experience in 1982 initiated his departure from traditional science---particularly once he refused to work on military space applications. He is also the author of books such as Exploring Inner & Outer Space, The Energy Solution Revolution, Miracle in the Void: Free Energy, Ufos and Other Scientific Revelations, etc.

He wrote in the Foreword to this 1993 book, "At the present time, books like this may not be for everyone; but I believe that before too long they will be much more widely accepted. I myself wouldn't have picked up this book during the 1960s or 1970s when I was a university-based planetary scientist. At that time I was a typical 'left-brained' academic---rationalistic, reductionistic, deterministic, materialistic---and I felt I had the universe and its laws mastered... Yet for all that, I felt alienated. Cut off from life. I felt no joy about the science I was doing. Then, quite unexpectedly, something happened. In the spring of 1979, during a weekend 'human potential' workshop, I temporarily let go of my rigid thinking. As a result, my hard-earned scientific belief system was irreversibly shaken... I found myself somehow slipping into a state that could best be termed 'trancelik'... Without knowing it, I had just participated in a successful 'remote viewing' experience... Other workshops and healing experiences, as well as a near-death experience, propelled me along a path of anomalous adventure that time and again transcended the limits of my scientific 'truth' and led eventually to the writing of ... Exploring Inner & Outer Space ... (this) has led me to the conclusion that science itself will need to be revised to embrace these greater truths. That is what this new book is all about."

Here are some additional quotations from the book:

"We must now rewrite the laws of physics so that the results of such experiments are no longer anomalous. In doing so, we must never forget that the 'laws' we write are simply reflections of our own current understanding of reality. They must never be confused with reality itself..." (Pg. 36)
"And so, holding the spoon in my two hands... I visualized extending my ki into the spoon and becoming at one with it. I visualized the spoon softening and bending ... some of our spoons literally softened... Just as quickly, the spoons hardened again... Then I surrendered. I felt what could only be called love and oneness with the spoon.... The spoon stayed soft and I suspended disbelief for long enough to put two or three easy, tight twists into it... Efforts to unbend the spoon later resulted in the spoon snapping in two." (Pg. 55)